Social Forestry and Environment
Greening of environment is the priority of STAR. We have undertaken large-scale Social
Forestry programme in the adjoining districts. A humble beginning was made in
1996-97 with a distribution of around 1.0 million seedlings amongst the farmers
for planting on their farmland.
Since then, activities were accelerated and expanded with
the encouraging participation and response of
the farmers around 237 nurseries have been developed and 27 million
seedling distributed amongest farmers during 2005-06 in adjoining eight districts viz. Saharanpur,
Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, J. P. Nagar, Moradabad, Hardwar and
Dehradun.
As on date, around 146.6 million
plants, raised from quality seeds obtained from Seed Orchards of Forest Research
Institute, Dehradun and UP Forest Department, have been distributed amongst the
farmers.
We have thus contributed to green an area of
around 43,983 Hectare. Our programme aims at raising of 30 million seedlings every year through
Kisan Nurseries. Quality seed, insecticide, micronutrient, publicity material
are supplied free of cost to the farmers.
In order
to enthuse the farmers for planting, periodical
seminars and gosthis are held at various places, where interaction
with farmers helps solving their problems.
This year (2006-07), we
are proposing establishment of Kisan Nurseries with target of 30 million plant distributions. All operations including raising
and planting is done under the technical guidance of our experienced and technical
personnel.
Apart from environmental improvement, our emphasis is to
increase productivity of renewable wood resource to the benefit of the
farmers. In order to increase the yield per unit area and time Clonal
Technology Programme was started in the year 1996-97. For production of
clonal plants company has developed necessary infrastructure like fully
automatic greenhouses, hardening chambers etc. at Tapri near Saharanpur.
There is plan to expand the capacity from 3 lakh clonal plant per annum to
64 lakh clonal plant per annum in next four to five year. 2 high
yielding clones of Eucalyptus have been developed which are in good
demand. Their productivity is almost 2 times higher than ordinary seedling
plantations.
|
Year of Plantation
|
No. of Nurseries
|
No. of Seedlings Distributed
(in Lacs)
|
Approximate Area under Green Cover (Hectare)
|
| 1996-1997 |
14 |
10 |
300 |
| 1997-1998 |
26 |
25 |
750 |
| 1998-1999 |
45 |
65 |
1950 |
| 1999-2000 |
85 |
80 |
2400 |
| 2000-2001 |
128 |
88 |
2640 |
| 2001-2002 |
158 |
121 |
3630 |
| 2002-2003 |
170 |
130 |
3900 |
| 2003-2004 |
164 |
150 |
4500 |
| 2004-2005 |
247 |
228 |
6827 |
| 2005-2006 |
237 |
270 |
8086 |
|
2006-2007 (Proposed) |
271 |
300 |
9000 |
| Total |
|
1466 |
43983
|
|
